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The same man, apparently, told The Times of Israel that all prophets “should be in front of the judge.”

“The main problem is I am the first one to put on the screen someone who is [portraying] Muhammad. It makes them mad,” he said. “But we have to open the door. After 9/11 everybody should be in front of the judge, even Jesus, even Muhammad.”

Bacile, whose age has been reported as either 52 or 56, told the paper that he’s Jewish and familiar with the region, and he told the AP that he’s a real estate developer and an Israeli Jew. “But Israeli officials said they had not heard of him, and there was no record of him being a citizen,” reported the AP, which has since updated its story to reflect doubts about Bacile’s identity.

Florida pastor Terry Jones, whose Quran burning in 2011 ignited deadly riots worldwide, has been promoting the film. He released a statement Tuesday calling it “an American production, not designed to attack Muslims but to show the destructive ideology of Islam,” adding that it “further reveals in a satirical fashion the life of Muhammad,” according to the Times.

Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other U.S. officials were killed in the attacks Tuesday in Benghazi, where protesters burned down the U.S. consulate. On the same day in Cairo, Egypt, protesters climbed the walls of the U.S. embassy and tore down the American flag, replacing it with an Islamic banner.

U.S. officials said Wednesday that they believe the attacks in Libya were premeditated and not the result of a protest becoming out of control, according to The New York Times.

all your god squadders, whatever the religion, are ****ing stupid. do you ever think critically on your own? do you realize the funny man you believe in is entirely dictated by where you were born? it's all fairy tales you idiots. when the cold dirt hits your grave as it does mine, that's it, game over. i suggest you make the most of your real every day life than some afterlife that only exists in your fear of death. the all time champion of false promises and unfounded claims....religion. the greatest ******** story ever told.

This type of person is a few notches below the extremists that attacked our embassies. Spreading his hate from the safety of his home while our people are attacked over seas. Even that clown book burning Pastor stepped back for the safety of our troops.

He has a right to express himself, but Freedom of Speech is not Freedom from Responsibility.

People who attempt to silence through violence, mob action, murder, are the enemies of free speech, not of a particular voice. Governments who think they must comply with such mobs, and ignore the rights of minorities and dissenters, are only showing their weakness and will encourage further the tyranny of the mob.

"imagine if a Muslim releases a film bashing Jesus? What would Americans do in this case?"

They would kick and scream but not do much else. Christians have more or less grown up from the medieval times of witch burning and inquisition. They don't particularly like Bill Maher or Christopher Hitchens bashing Christianity all the time, but they're not out there with pitchforks and torches lynching non-Christians any more.

in Egypt Coptic Christ churches burn and woman and kids are murdered and raped ..... what did Obama say about this ? Oh, I remember he took Jerusalem off his platform and is prosecuting Israel for not agreeing in being eliminated! ..................

a video is nothing compared with the atrocities from the Muslims against Christians in Egypt.

The California-based filmmaker whose YouTube trailer sparked attacks against U.S. missions in Cairo and Libya, resulting in the death of the U.S. ambassador to Libya, is unapologetic about his incendiary movie

A republican unapologetic about causing the deaths of innocents? Quelle surprise.

I'm thinking this COWARD should come out of hiding and go and exercise his Free Speech rights at a more honorable distance.....like Cairo....

Everyone here is missing the point. Does the guy have the right to create such hate-filled and propaganda-based media? Unfortunately Yes. Is he right to do so, just because it isn't illegal? Hell no. What ever happened to our moral compass. What happened to the saying, "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."? The right always talks about morals and the left about compassion. It seems today we as Americans demonstrate very little of either, and as a result we are an angry, divided, stagnant, and fading nation. The only way America makes it, is together. United we stand, divided we fall

In our rush to appease the intollatarians, the statist will no doubt call for restrictions on free speech, equating it with the "fire in a movie theater" hokum. When in reality, unlike Christianity, Islam has never evolved out of its 6 century tribal background. Its ironic that when you point out how intolerant Islam is of other faiths, they threaten to kill you.

T'would seem his views are amply demonstrated as truthful, by the actions of Islam's "followers" this past few days.. or the last 45 YEARS, since Munich, really..

At SOME point (one that I hope comes a LOT sooner than later..) we, that is the Western World, and THIS INCLUDES EUROPE, are going to have to pull our collective heads out (of our asses, OR a pile of self-shovelled sand..) and PUBLICLY Acknowledge that Islam, its precepts, its advoctates AND beliefs, are 180 degrees in OPPOSITION to OURS!!

If they are so bent-out of shape over what THEY perceive as an attack on their faith, why would ANYONE SANE think that a violent attack on EMBASSIES is going to help public perception of them??

We should at LEAST be as outraged, and as willing to isolate these women-hating(in EVERY imaginable way..) screaming, hair-trigger ZEALOTS as much as we did to South Africa in the 1980's!!

I wonder what it will take.. another massive attack?

Maybe some Immigrated Muslim here does his own theater-style shooting attack?

An EMBASSY.... we have gone to war over a LOT less than this,... hello, IRAN in the 1970's??

If Islam can't take ANY form of criticism without violence, what we have here